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The question that engages many Americans--not as Democrats or Republicans but as human beings--is how to restore America's place in the world.

On February 7, 1985 at 2:00 p.m. the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent Enrique (Kiki) Camarena was attacked by five men while opening his truck doors intending to drive and meet his wife for lunch.

Last week we examined how reactive dependence turns us all upside down. By looking at the U.S.?s ?addictive? dependence on Middle East oil, we learn about our own faulty dependence on our kids. What is comes down to is this: no one respects or likes to listen to needy people. Think about it. You may have compassion upon a needy person, you may pity a needy person, but you don?t respect someone who is emotionally needy.

DHS just published the guidelines to be used for submitting information to the Top Screen Module of CSAT. Flammable chemical on the DHS list will require specific information on the amount of chemicals present on site.

Is Al Gore the political left?s equivalent of Chicken Little or should we all snap to attention and take him more seriously? Is global warming a concern that the church should undertake as its own cause? Let?s see.

People who have their wits usually try to learn from their past mistakes. Whole nations work to avoid the pitfalls of yore. But will the entire globe learn from its past dark history. Sadly, it doesn?t look that way.

It?s Oscar time, so get ready to hear all about all the movies you ?must? see in order to be in the know, on top of things, and popular at the water cooler. I?m always wondering who the heck has time to take in the ?25 Movies You Must See Before the Oscars??

Most politicians bend the laws of the land and steal money or solicit bribes because they need the funds to support networks of patronage. Others do it in order to reward their nearest and dearest or to maintain a lavish lifestyle when their political lives are over.

Trying to find the origins and history of what is known today as ?political correctness would prove trying to the fairest minded researcher. The best anyone may be able to determine about it with any certainty is that it is a system of checks and balances whose very premise hangs in mid air.

If it were possible to hear her voice, we would hear the earth herself crying out in protest at the slaughter of innocents in Iraq - at the flimsy justification of the destruction of one group by another, at the action of Cain against Abel. For the earth carries our pain, just as we carry it. She carries the energies of destruction that we inflict upon each other, trying all the while to cleanse them from her heart.